The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-11-10

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Il is very curious thing that today
the fashionable woman b also . literary
woman. The woman who does not
dabble In litersture IN one way or
another, writing stories for . child's
paper, letters for . syndicate or sketches
for . magazine, 10 the exceptional
woman. There Il one funny side TO Il,
and that is the way the woman who writes
is sought after. Somsbody gives big
luncheon-hopes for notice Of tim
vites the swellest literary woman; some
body has new play-offers to read It, or
lendit to be read, to the woman who writes
out of-town letters; modiste, pic ,
ture dealer, or . bookseller wants .
notice-sends . specimen Of his goods
to the woman who writes. OF course
great deal Of pleasure comes In
this way to the woman who writes,
but many times she makes herself enc
mies-innocently makes them.
She cannot notice all sorts Of things;
she cannot give poor pictures, bad books,
good notices, nor can she describe -
beuntiful feast the luncheon that was Q
very fiat affair. The manager sends her
box and In It she finds an enormous
bouquet for herself, but the manager, In
return, expects the next week, or the
week after, that there will be few words
in her regular article of the special actor
that he is projecting, or the special play
that he is expecting the public to fall
down before and worship.
There is much that is very pleasant
comes to the woman who writes. We all
like bouquets, books, with the authors
compliments, etchings that ere hrst
proofs, photographs with the actors au
tograph, and good seats ct the play, or
bright punches Of flowers, but that one
Is expected to give . Quid pro qss goes
without saying. Some women ere cat
like enough beg their pardon
womanly enough to say something mali
cious in return for the kindness, but the
wise woman is the one who carefully has
It understood that when she speaks Of
anything in print, it is because It d really
valuable, and that she praises nothing
that is not worth it. To-day, she 10 the
only independent woman who writes.
Madame Dash may do little things for
the newspapers, for which she gets not .
cent Of pay, and be satisfied with what,
In the servants hall, would be called the
perquisites; but the woman who goes in
for making her life work that Of Journal
ism has made the worst step-the most
positively false one imaginable when she
relies upon such things - her income.
Soon the world comes to know that any.
thing over her signature is valueless. Il
is quickly found out that the papers pay
her nothing, and this is the very worst
thing that can be said about worker.
MI. Ruskin's idea that people should
work for love weuld have done very
we'll, perhaps, in the middle ages, but
nowadays, unless the game is worth the
candle, indeed, unless It gets an electric
light flashed upon 1t, the world rates Il
az very little.
There are number Of clever women
in New York who work well and arc
we'll paid for it. Among these, that 10
in the fashionable set, are Madame Lama,
daughter of DR.. Hammond, blonde
beauty, who has three handsome sons,
and manages to be woman Of the
world and to WELD her pen well at the
same time. Another is Mrs. John Sher-
wood, large, portly dowager who al
ways makes everything she does pay.
Another is little Miss Sheridan, who 10
as bright in her speech as she is with her
pen, something that cannot always be
said about literary women, because they
their printed speeches.
Mrs. Ernest Harvier, another clever
| writer, has q most charming home and
gives pleasant and enjoyable "at homes"
that have not particle Of the objection
able essence of Bohemianism about them,
and yet, at the same time, are entirely
lacking In that we're-all-up-in.ou Sun.
day-best," which is said to be the great
mistake of most American entertain
ments. These are by no means the only
women In society who write, but they
are among the most noticeable.
Apropos of women who write, how
many people know the story Of Nrs.
Mulock- Craik's adopted daughteri She
was spoken of at her mothers funeral
as having had her marriage banns an
nounced only the Sunday before. Thia
little girl, adopted by Miss Mulock, wa
found on stone by the wsyside where
she had been left by her cruel parents.
Charmed by her sweet baby-fsce and
winsome laugh, Miss Mulock and her
husband determined to adopt her. Al
coon as the child could understand she
was told that, while she was not their
daughter in the usual sense, she had
been given to them by God, who put hez
on stone. This stone had been dug up
and was in the hall of Miss Mulockfa
house, and from the time she was old
enough it became the duty of the little
girl to keep it covered continually with
fresh flowers. Whenever beautiful
vase was given to Miss Mulock, q lovely
jug or bit of china that would hold
flowers, 1t would be suggested that Il
should be put on what was known - the
Baby -stone."
When the little girl was about ton
years old she was given birthday fete
her birthday being the day ON which aha
was discovered. At this festivity she
said, with great deal Of dignity, to an
other mite, II am not an ordinary child
like you-you were born, was found =
The fact Of her unknown parentage was
never made q cruel story to her, and shs